Ed O'Hara

[Ed OHara]

Hi folks - just joined up! - aged and decrepit de-registered architect seeks help with Building Control - the guys in the shiny peaked hats, dark glasses and armbands

dragged back into the fray by wayward kids and now hopelessly out of touch I joined looking for any help around - in anticipation of lots of queries from BC

and it looks like I got this introduction in the wrong place!

ed

Edited May 4, 2017 by jack
to add stuff and apologise!

[Tennentslager]

Morning Ed and welcome to the forum. What's the project...always nice to have another architect to offer a viewpoint?

[Ferdinand]

Welcome to the cut and thrust.

[jack]

Welcome Ed!  

[Nickfromwales]

Hi and welcome. 

Nice to have a 'seasoned' professional aboard  

[Ed OHara]

hi there again - thanks for the welcomes! its a TINY mod to form a kitchen on the GF adjacent to the back garden with a couple IG lintols maybe and some faffing around with support - nothing major - my idea was an engineers calcs and a building notice but NO WAY - so its heads down now  - cartridge paper on the dining room table - no drawing board - no autocad!!!

[jack]

6 minutes ago, Ed OHara said:

cartridge paper on the dining room table - no drawing board - no autocad!!!

 

Old school! 

[ToughButterCup]

Many of us here are young-at-heart decrepit old farts; struggling with how things were done back then and how they are now, shaking our heads in sometimes gleeful disbelief. Downloadable coordinates accurate to a few mm,  laser measurement accurate to fewer; overnight deliveries to a post code. And the fast disappearing art of common-sense checking.

 

Hence we 'lost' 157mm recently, and over pressured delivery drivers steer themselves into the rat trap from Hell: our lane.

 

As @Jack says, Old Skool's welcome. Add my welcome to the list.

Ian

[Stones]

Welcome aboard!

[Guest Alphonsox]

Welcome to the forum

[PeterW]

Welcome ...! Slight worry if you have BC issues what's the chance of mere mortals ...! 

 

All good fun here - ask away and we may be able to assist. I think we even have our own tame BCO in the ranks somewhere...

[MikeSharp01]

Welcome - sounds like fun - thick lines, thin lines, construction lines, the reassuring rasp of a well honed pencil on the cartridge paper, forming those little arrows - filling them in and writing text between two feint lines. I should get a good rubber. CAD is great but symbiosis of man and thinking machine (JC Jones, Design the Seeds of human futures, 1970) it ain't yet, wish I had the time to indulge with a pencil and the space for an A1 drawing board.

 

 

[divorcingjack]

Welcome Ed. Whereabouts in the country are you? We are spread all over the place.

[Ed OHara]

At Framlingham, Suffolk (castle, church organ, lots of new houses sitting on an infrastructure as old as the castle - so more digging up of road to come)

ed